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Alchemy authors

There is a huge depth of experience and knowledge within the team of authors who
contribute to Alchemy. It is probably one of the largest and most experienced group
of senior managers and consultants ever gathered together to pool their considerable
expertise into a focused and practical resource for managers.

They bring together within Alchemy the ideas that they know actually work in practice.

 

Alan Harpham

Areas of expertise

  • Project management
  • Programme management
  • Spirituality in the workplace
  • Executive coaching – individuals and teams
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Aled Davies

Areas of expertise

  • Resolving team conflict, workplace mediation
  • Reducing bullying and harassment
  • Increasing employee resilience
  • Executive coaching
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Andrea Charman

Areas of expertise

  • Creative leadership development
  • Master practitioner of emotional intelligence
  • Learning and development
  • Coaching, mentoring, NLP
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Andrew Bendefy

Areas of expertise

  • Dyslexia and other learning difficulties
  • Health and wellness coaching
  • Corporate coaching and individual coaching
  • Group mastery and ‘Train the trainer’
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Andrew Lawless

Areas of expertise

  • Assertiveness and work relationships
  • Design / delivery of management programmes
  • Strategic thinking / ideas
  • One-to-one and group coaching
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Andrew Wood

Areas of expertise

  • People and leadership development
  • Bullying and harassment
  • Business and personal consultancy and coaching
  • Training materials design
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Andy Smith

Areas of expertise

  • Emotional Intelligence, ECI
  • NLP training
  • Stress management, communication skills
  • Executive coaching
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Andy Taylor

Areas of expertise

  • Portfolio, programme and project management
  • Portfolio, programme and project delivery
  • Programme and project manager coaching
  • Information security
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Angela O’Connell

Areas of expertise

  • Intuition
  • NLP
  • Work-life balance
  • Coaching and creativity
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Anna Finlayson

Areas of expertise

  • Nonviolent communication
  • Training, mediation, coaching
  • Conflict resolution training, relationship coaching
  • Gender issues in the workplace
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Anna Harrington

Areas of expertise

  • Bespoke stress managment training
  • Resilience training
  • Health and wellbeing strategic development
  • Sickness absence management
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Arielle Essex

Areas of expertise

  • Rapport and group dynamics
  • Career development
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • NLP and hypnosis
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Babs Moore

Areas of expertise

  • Sales management
  • Customer relationship management
  • Inventory / design-in management
  • Telephone and presentation skills
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Barbara Buffton

Areas of expertise

  • Leadership / management skills
  • Presentation / personal impact skills
  • Stress / time management
  • Dealing with change
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Becky Toal

Areas of expertise

  • Corporate social responsibility
  • Environmental management, systems and auditing
  • Sustainability and ethics
  • Legal evaluation and registers
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Bob MacKenzie

Areas of expertise

  • Action learning, mentoring
  • Change, creativity, critical thinking
  • Facilitation, leadership coaching, mentoring
  • Research and evaluation, writing
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Bruce Milroy

Areas of expertise

  • Team diagnostics / team building
  • Organisational dynamics / culture change
  • Clarifying strategy / defining infrastructure
  • Behavioural science / NLP / facilitation
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Cathy Dunn

Areas of expertise

  • Leadership development
  • Team building
  • Meeting facilitation
  • Voice / personal presence coaching
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Christopher Ridgeway

Areas of expertise

  • Anxiety and depression
  • Change
  • Post traumatic stress disorder
  • Individual well-being and organisational stress
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Cindy Wigglesworth

Areas of expertise

  • Organisational design, effectiveness
  • Workforce and culture issues
  • Executive coaching, performance improvement
  • Training development and delivery
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Claire Walsh

Areas of expertise

  • Psychology and psychometrics
  • Leadership development
  • Performance management
  • Management consultancy
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Clare Forrest

Areas of expertise

  • Management development
  • Written commmunications
  • Staff development support
  • Team building for intact teams
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Daren DeWitt

Areas of expertise

  • Nonviolent communication
  • Training, mediation, coaching
  • Conflict resolution, relationship coaching
  • Gender issues in the workplace, mediation
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Darren Good

Areas of expertise

  • Conflict resolution
  • Personal safety
  • NLP
  • Body language
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David Bancroft-Turner

Areas of expertise

  • Organisational politics
  • Multicultural matrix management structures
  • Executive coaching
  • Leadership development
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David Barker

Areas of expertise

  • Enterprise software
  • Professional services
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David Hoad

Areas of expertise

  • Psychometrics, assessment and selection
  • Entrepreneurship profiling
  • Talent management
  • Organisational diagnostics
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David King

Areas of expertise

  • Strategic business analysis
  • Requirements analysis and design
  • Change management
  • Programme and project management
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Dawn Bentley

Areas of expertise

  • Leadership, coaching and facilitation
  • Personal brand
  • Talent management
  • Internal communications, team development
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Debbie Leven

Areas of expertise

  • Public relations
  • Marketing
  • Coaching and training
  • e-learning
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Dennis Reina

Areas of expertise

  • Building trust
  • Rebuilding trust
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Di McLanachan

Areas of expertise

  • NLP master practitioner
  • Coaching
  • Training
  • Weight loss coaching
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Don Morley

Areas of expertise

  • Political intelligence
  • Positive influencing
  • Coaching
  • Situational leadership
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Doreen Yarnold

Areas of expertise

  • Business growth
  • Leadership development
  • Executive coaching
  • Mentoring
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Doug Strycharczyk

Areas of expertise

  • Mental toughness
  • Organisation development
  • Senior management development and team building
  • Business improvement programmes
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Gamiel Yafai

Areas of expertise

  • Equality and diversity training
  • Research, strategy development
  • Inclusion workshops
  • Diversity recruitment and marketing
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Geoff Allan

Areas of expertise

  • e-Learning
  • Appreciative inquiry / action learning sets
  • Management and team development
  • NLP / change facilitation
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Gillian Burn

Areas of expertise

  • Health consultant
  • NLP master practitioner
  • Mind Mapping® and speed reading
  • Energy and performance training
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Graham Bosman

Areas of expertise

  • Strategic programme and project management
  • Programme and project delivery
  • Coaching and educating programme and project managers
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Gwyn Williams

Areas of expertise

  • Organisational dynamics / culture change
  • Clarifying strategy / defining infrastructure
  • Team diagnostics / team building
  • Executive coaching
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Hayley Oats

Areas of expertise

  • Employee engagement
  • Change management
  • Culture change
  • Maximising employee value
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Heather White

Areas of expertise

  • Creating networking strategies
  • Finding and retaining clients and contacts
  • Personal branding
  • Community collaboration
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Helen Moulsley

Areas of expertise

  • Organisational change
  • People development, coaching and mentoring
  • Performance management
  • Marketing
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Helen Whitten

Areas of expertise

  • Accredited coach
  • CEDR accredited mediator
  • Facilitation, writing, training
  • Cognitive-behavioural coach
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Hugh Babington Smith

Areas of expertise

  • Running small businesses
  • Posture and comfort in the workplace

 

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Ian Moore

Areas of expertise

  • Keynote presentations
  • Workshops

 

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Ian Robinson

Areas of expertise

  • Drugs and alcohol policy development
  • Risk assessment, crisis management
  • Crisis management, awareness training
  • Drug testing, counseling and treatment
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Ian Saunders

Areas of expertise

  • Leadership and change
  • Personal and organisation development
  • Team working
  • Coaching skills
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Jane Tredgett

Areas of expertise

  • Management and performance management
  • Interviewing, presentation and selling skills
  • Customer service
  • Personal excellence
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Jayne Cormie

Areas of expertise

  • Creative thinking
  • Strategic thinking
  • Thinking styles
  • Mind Mapping®
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Jeff Bartlett

Areas of expertise

  • Marketing and corporate strategy development
  • Product development / marketing planning
  • Corporate identity development and implementation
  • Personnel evaluation processes
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Jennifer Stenhouse

Areas of expertise

  • Video, media and speaker trainer
  • LAB (Language and Behaviour) profile consultant and trainer
  • Leadership dynamics and non-verbal communication
  • Certified neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) master practitioner
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Jeremy Cassell

Areas of expertise

  • Coaching and management development
  • Sales and sales management
  • Strategic account management
  • Training with multi-national companies
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John Kind

Areas of expertise

  • Commercial and financial L&D
  • Design and development of training modules
  • Commercial and financial advice
  • Train the trainer
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John Quinn

Areas of expertise

  • Personal and group development training
  • Train the trainer / training material design
  • Mentoring and motivational management
  • Problem solving / adapting existing structures
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Judy Apps

Areas of expertise

  • Voice of influence training and coaching
  • Impact and presentation skills training and coaching
  • NLP / leadership development and coaching
  • Confidence and communication coaching
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Judy Carole

Areas of expertise

  • Coping with stress and avoiding burnout
  • End of life companionship training
  • Care management
  • Grief in the workplace – avoiding the pitfalls
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Julia Middleton

Areas of expertise

  • Leadership development
  • Effecting real change
  • Extending influence beyond the organisation
  • Venture philanthropy / media standards
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Julia Miller

Areas of expertise

  • Cognitive styling
  • Business psychology
  • Thinking styles
  • Virtual mentoring
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Kate Hull Rodgers

Areas of expertise

  • Humour in the workplace
  • Building relationships
  • Presentation skills
  • Seminar leading / coaching
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Kate Russell

Areas of expertise

  • Employment law training
  • Employment policies and procedures
  • Discipline and grievance
  • Termination of employment
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Len Horridge

Areas of expertise

  • Sales and management development
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Management and financial services
  • Communication and attitude
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Liggy Webb

Areas of expertise

 

Liz Hudson

Areas of expertise

  • Martial arts
  • Educational martial arts
  • Conflict resolution
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Lua Leggett

Areas of expertise

  • Performance and reward
  • Business strategy and case development
  • Project management
  • Workforce metrics
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Martin Haworth

Areas of expertise

  • Leadership and management development
  • Executive, management, team coahcing
  • Online learning products
  • Business consulting services
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Mary-Louise Angoujard

Areas of expertise

  • Communicating with positive impact
  • Presenting effectively / leadership image
  • Developing presence and gravitas
  • Nonverbal communication
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Melanie Greene

Areas of expertise

  • Managing challenging interactions
  • Effective team working
  • Mastering your inner critic
  • Developing learning skills
  • Management development
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Michelle Reina

Areas of expertise

  • Building trust
  • Rebuilding trust
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Nick Owen

Areas of expertise

  • Using story and narrative in business
  • Creativity
  • Communicating, relating, presenting
  • Trainer training and development
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Nikki Owen

Areas of expertise

  • Charisma and personal impact
  • High impact presentations and stagecraft
  • Communicating and influencing
  • Balancing and managing energy flow
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Olive Hickmott

Areas of expertise

  • Health and wellness coaching
  • Reducing learning difficulties (dyslexia)
  • Corporate and individual coaching
  • Training coaches and traners
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Paul Z Jackson

Areas of expertise

  • Change
  • Strategy
  • Performance
  • Teams
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Paul Matthews

Areas of expertise

  • NLP and personal development
  • Executive coaching
  • Team building
  • Sales coaching and training
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Paula Newton

Areas of expertise

  • Performance management
  • Organisational change
  • Start-up companies
  • Operations management / business processes
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Pete Fisher

Areas of expertise

  • Bespoke health and safety management systems
  • Legal compliance audits
  • Gap analysis
  • Management training and guidance
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Peter Parkes

Areas of expertise

  • Portfolio, programme and project management
  • ICT strategy, management and delivery
  • Business transformation and change management
  • Innovation and technology management
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Phil Allcock

Areas of expertise

  • Design and delivery of L&D interventions
  • Meeting facilitation
  • One-to-one performance coaching
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Phil Manington

Areas of expertise

  • Management training
  • Culture change
  • Personal and business coaching
  • Strategic planning
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Rachel Brushfield

Areas of expertise

  • Talent management
  • Career strategy
  • Employer brand strategy and communication
  • Coaching and mentoring
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Rita Bailey

Areas of expertise

  • Mediation and communications
  • Organisation development / change management
  • Mentoring and management training
  • Performance coaching
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Roisin Murray

Areas of expertise

  • Strategy and leadership
  • Business coaching / people management / HR
  • Team-working and personal effectiveness
  • Storytelling
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Rosie Stevens

Areas of expertise

  • Organisation development
  • Creating design for learning
  • Change and leadership
  • Facilitation / coaching
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Rus Slater

Areas of expertise

  • Learning and development / coaching
  • Process improvement / change management
  • Strategy planning facilitation
  • Career counseling / outplacement
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Sharon Varney

Areas of expertise

  • Strategic learning
  • Leadership and organisational development
  • Talent development
  • Internal communications
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Simon Webley

Areas of expertise

  • Ethical issues, policy and implementation
  • Business ethics training
  • Good practice and ethical business conduct research
  • Identification of solutions to business dilemmas
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Siobhan Soraghan

Areas of expertise

  • Team effectiveness
  • Leadership and coaching skills
  • Politics and decision-making at work
  • Systems thinking and strategic tools
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Stephen Newton

Areas of expertise

  • Communication and identifying customer needs
  • Presentation and articulating value
  • Business development and consultancy
  • Executive coaching / leadership development
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Steve Roche

Areas of expertise

  • NLP and communication skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Hypnotherapy
  • Life and business coaching
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Stuart Harris

Areas of expertise

  • Marketing consumer research
  • Communications strategy
  • Organisational energy
  • Transactional analysis
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Sue Howard

Areas of expertise

  • Spiritual mentoring
  • Leadership development
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Sue Wilcox

Areas of expertise

  • Change initiation / continual improvement
  • Problem solving
  • Budget management
  • Team management / staff retention
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Suzanne Neville

Areas of expertise

  • Leadership / management
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Coach development
  • Team development
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Terry Wilkinson

Areas of expertise

  • Team facilitation and conflict resolution
  • Training delivery and material design
  • Outdoor leadership development
  • Executive coaching / IIP assessing
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Theresa Truscott

Areas of expertise

  • Social media
  • Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn
  • Online reputation
  • Speaking, presentation skills
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Tom Bird

Areas of expertise

  • NLP and management development
  • One-to-one and team coaching
  • Training design and delivery
  • Workshop programmes and consulting
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Tony Kippenberger

Areas of expertise

  • Strategy
  • Competitor analysis
  • Senior level management development
  • Customised management development material
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Val Lawson

Areas of expertise

  • Internal communications
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Relationship management
  • Partnership working
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Vandy Massey

Areas of expertise

  • Employment engagement
  • Online performance tools
  • 360 degree feedback
  • Continuous improvement and measuring progress
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Veronica Broomes

Areas of expertise

  • Corporate social responsibility strategies
  • Environmental and sustainable procurement
  • Leadership and management skills
  • Change management and performance coaching
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Wallace Murray

Areas of expertise

  • Performance and resources engagement
  • Grading and reward structures
  • Customer relations
  • Quality
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‘Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.’
Samuel Smiles (1812 – 1904)